|
Program
|
The
Conference
|
The
Presenters
|
| Designed
to be of interest and significance for
laity and clergy as well as academic scholars, the annual
Aquinas/Luther Conferences bring together distinguished scholars for
the presentation and discussion of fresh insights into the thought
of the great Catholic theologian and the great Protestant
theologian. |
DR. RONDA CHERVIN, Professor
of Philosophy (ret.), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles;
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Lenoir-Rhyne; now residing in
Morganton, North Carolina.
|
| This
year’s topic, Aquinas and
Luther on Spirituality, Holiness, and the Saints, brings
distinguished theologians from across the
United States
to address these dimensions of the Christian life.
|
DR. REGIS MARTIN, Professor
of Theology at
Franciscan
University
of
Steubenville
,
Steubenville
,
Ohio
.
|
| We
are asking each speaker to address the overall topic in such fashion
as to offer insights to laity, students, clergy, and scholars that
will be of interest and importance to each.
Each speaker will address the general topic from his or her
chosen perspective. |
FR. PATRICK HENRY REARDON, Senior Editor of Touchstone,
and Pastor of All Saints Orthodox Church,
Chicago
,
Illinois
.
|
| The
14th annual edition of the Aquinas/Luther Conference is
sponsored by the Center for Theology at
Lenoir-Rhyne
College
in cooperation with parishes in
Hickory
that have participated in the Roman Catholic-Lutheran Covenant: St.
Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, and Holy Trinity. St. Andrews and
Mt.
Olive
Lutheran
Churches
.
|
PR. AMY SCHIFRIN, STS,
Lutheran doctoral candidate and Interim Pastor of Trinity
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
|
| The
purpose of these explorations, inaugurated in 1993, is to contribute
both toward the renewal and realization of the visions of Thomas
Aquinas and Martin Luther, and toward healing of the
sixteenth-century breach in Christendom.
|
|
|
|
